Motivational Quotes

Music

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

42.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

50.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare